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Monthly Archives: February 2007

7 Songs for January 2007

Friday, February 2, 2007

Seven songs I listened to during January 2007, and why. Includes thoughts about Last.fm, Iraq, and other sundry topics.

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Thoughts on 'Thoughts on Music'

Thursday, February 8, 2007

My thoughts on Steve Jobs' recent memo, "Thoughts on Music." While widely reported (and hailed) as yet another sign of the end of digital rights management systems as a way to control the use of digital music, it is clearly a public relations stunt aimed squarely at European consumers.

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Yet Another Sign of the Apocalypse

Monday, February 12, 2007

From the list of this year's Grammy winners:
Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal: "My Humps," Black Eyed Peas.
Considering the list of nominees was comprised of songs by craptastic bands like The Fray, Keane, and The Pussycat Dolls, I am somewhat not surprised that the Black Eyed Peas won. I would have given [...]

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Email Respite

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Yesterday, I made a mistake while configuring Postfix, the program that deals with email on my server.[1] The result of this was that I received no email over a 24 hour period stretching from approximately noon on Saturday to noon today.
I have misconfigured Postfix before, but have always realized my mistake within a much shorter [...]

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2nd Generation Blues

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

A confession: I am not a fan of February. Reading through my private journal (which goes back to late 2001), it is not clear that it has never been a good month for me, especially since I started living in Cambridge. In New Jersey, February is mild enough that it feels like the beginning of [...]

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